Heads of member-states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the US, Secretary-Generals of the UN, the League of Arab States, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf attended the summit.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, welcoming the participants of the summit, underlined that their partaking has an important significance for increasing the prestige of this forum.

The forum is significant as it facilitates in confronting extremism and terrorism, promotion of the ideas of tolerance, strengthening security, stability and cooperation.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with President of the Islamic Development Bank Bandar Hajjar within the visit to Saudi Arabia.

Steady development of relations between Uzbekistan and the IDB, wide-scale cooperation of the parties in developing and implementing projects in social-economic areas was underlined at the meeting. Investments by the Islamic Development Bank in such spheres in Uzbekistan as healthcare, educations, irrigation, power industry, utilities, development of road infrastructure, support of small business are a vivid illustration of this.

The parties exchanged views on prospects of IDB's involvement in organization of an international scientific-research centre at the Imam Bukhari memorial complex in Samarkand, specialised in studying rich cultural heritage of our great ancestors, who added invaluable contribution to the development of humanity.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend the Arab Islamic American summit on 21 May 2017 in Riyadh at the invitation of King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

An official meeting ceremony of the President of Uzbekistan took place. A guard of honour was lined up for the high-level guest.

Within the framework of the visit of the Head of our state to Saudi Arabia, several bilateral meetings are also expected to be held.

Today President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has departed on a working visit for Turkmenistan at the invitation of Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

The issues of bilateral relations in political, trade-economic, investment, transport-communications, cultural-humanitarian and other spheres will be discussed during the meetings and negotiations, which will be held in city of Turkmenbashi. The parties will also exchange views on regional and international topics.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev took part in the official opening ceremony of the forum.

The «One Belt, One Road» project, the main initiator of which has been China, envisages forming and promoting new models of international cooperation and development, as well as further strengthening the existing mechanisms of bilateral and multilateral cooperation.